Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am absolutely committed and we will continue to keep projects under review. We want to deliver, build and develop all projects in the NDP. If there is not sufficient funding to allow this project to get through route selection, we will make sure more is provided. A similar question was asked earlier on the allocation of resources. We have a challenge in that we have some €100 billion worth of projects already in planning, not including a number of projects such as the widening of the rail track north of Dublin and a whole range of other projects. The A5 was mentioned earlier in the context of additional funding. All of these projects are costing additional billions and we are also seeing inflation across a whole range of road and public transport projects. This means that all of the projects in the NDP cannot be delivered within an immediate timeframe, that is, this decade. TII and the Department must make sure that we keep as many projects as possible progressing in an orderly fashion. We will do that but it would be a false promise to pretend that everything can be built, given that the funding available is three times lower than what the overall need may be.

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